Knives Quotes · Page 34

Instead of using brushes all the time, try a palette knife to paint.

— Frank Bruno

A trial is still an ordeal by battle. For the broadsword there is the weight of evidence; for the battle-ax the force…

— Lloyd Paul Stryker

neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth -- that's the way home. neither vodka nor bread…

— Tadeusz Borowski

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

— E. B. White

Crazy gets all the knives.

— Anonymous

I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.

— Patricia Cornwell

Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.

— Ray Bradbury

If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.

— Catherynne M. Valente

It's like 10,000 spoons, when all you need is a knife.

— Alanis Morissette

People come up to me all the time and ask how I stay the way I am, and it's no secret. The…

— Marcus Samuelsson

I put my head out of my window and see how much the wind’s knife wants to slice it off. On this…

— Anonymous

[William] Klein has eyes like a knife. He is ruthless and outrageous but never mean - he is tender and funny and…

— Sophia Loren

Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy,…

— Gautama Buddha

What man with a human heart, who has ever cared for domestic animals, could look into their eyes, so full of confidence…

— Ellen G. White

Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your entire life, who should…

— Lisa See

A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off…

— William Gurnall

Tuon's eyes snapped open, and despite the dim light, she focused directly on Mat. She saw the knife in his hand, ready…

— Robert Jordan

Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife.

— Christopher Hitchens

I saw something in the store the other day that I don't understand: that peanut butter and jelly in the same jar.…

— Brian Regan

With my teethI have seized lifeUpon the knife of my youth.With my lips today,With my lips alone...

— Rene Char

This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.

— Franz Kafka

A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.

— Rene Daumal

It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its…

— Mark Twain